Posted on 10/15/2017 9:39:05 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
Elections in Lower Saxony have complicated German Chancellor Angela Merkel's federal coalition calculus as her conservative party finished second in a close race to the Social Democrats.
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They should rename her party to reflect reality: The Extreme Liberal Cultural Suicide Party.
The Free Democrats kinda hinted that they won’t be a partner in the coalition. For the SPD/Green deal to work....they’d need at least one more percent in votes to be found (just not going to happen) between the two of them.
So in the end, the SPD will have a junior partner in the CDU.
On the CDU’s part, pretty harsh deal...they were thought to be 7 points ahead there a month ago. There are two state elections in the spring of 2018 (Hessen and Bavaria). If the CDU were to lose four to five points (yet still winning), there would be a meeting in Berlin and look at retiring Merkel by the end of 2018 and finding some new figure for the party.
Yes Merkel’s conservative party is really the Big Business party. They are liberal in most things. They just consider the population as food for the businesses. They are the workers and the consumers. And when the businesses need more of one or the other they encourage immigrates. Not out of pity for refugees but to get more workers or younger tax payers or consumers.
Merkel is what you get when money means more to a politician than votes. Or otherwise said, money can buy votes through advertising or buying other politicians.
They should rename her party to reflect reality: The Extreme Liberal Cultural Suicide Party.
They are not extreme or liberal by German standards. That would be the pinkos in the SPD and Greens.
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